shareclick / vs Mouse Without Borders
ShareClick vs Mouse Without Borders
Mouse Without Borders is a great free tool from Microsoft — but it is Windows-only. If you need to share one keyboard and mouse between a Mac and a Windows PC, ShareClick does it: open source, encrypted by default, with clipboard and file sharing built in.
| Feature | ShareClick | Mouse Without Borders |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free & open source | Free (Microsoft Garage) |
| Works on Mac | Yes | No (Windows only) |
| Works on Windows | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes (MIT/Apache) | No |
| Clipboard (text + images) | Yes | Yes |
| File transfer | Yes | Yes |
| Encryption | On by default (X25519 + ChaCha20) | Limited |
| Auto discovery | mDNS (no IPs) | Manual (security code) |
| Input transport | UDP, ~6 µs | TCP |
which should you pick?
Choose ShareClick if either machine is a Mac — Mouse Without Borders can't help there. You also get open source, encryption on by default, and zero-config discovery.
Choose Mouse Without Borders if all your machines run Windows and you're happy with a closed-source Microsoft tool.
Mouse Without Borders is polished and genuinely free, but it never left Windows. ShareClick brings the same "one keyboard & mouse across machines" idea to Mac↔Windows, with a UDP input path (~6 µs transport overhead), encryption on every channel, and mDNS discovery so you never type an IP.